CategoryCreating Content

1st of December 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Write a Series for Your Blog (and Why You’ll Want To)

Have you ever written a series of posts for your blog – a set of posts that are deliberately linked together? If you haven’t, I hope I can convince you to give it a try. Some bloggers feel writing a series of posts is more daunting than writing individual posts. But ...more
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16th of June 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

11 Ways to Create More Compelling Content for Your Blog

Today I wanted to share some tips on how you can make your content more compelling, whether it’s written, video or audio content. I’m mixing things up and testing out my new camera to create some video content for the blog. For those of you interested in the production aspects ...more
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3rd of March 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Content

Recently, I’ve been exploring five strategies that I’d employ to promote my blog if I were starting all over again. I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. However when it comes to blogging not all ...more
Blog Promotion
Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog
25th of November 2021 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog

One of the better posts I always remember reading is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my ...more
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Tips to Add Originality to your Blog
21st of October 2021 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Tips to Add Originality to your Blog

Recently, we’ve been looking at a variety of ways that bloggers let their blogs degenerate. Today I want to talk about something that has the potential to kill a blog very quickly – the lack of original content or ideas. This is a mistake that many bloggers fall into to ...more
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Tips for When You Can’t Blog
7th of October 2021 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Tips for When You Can’t Blog

Have you ever come across a blog that posts more about why they don’t post than anything else? I hesitate to write about this method of ‘letting your blog go’ because I know that most bloggers do go through stages when they struggle to post to their blog due to ...more
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How to hire writers for your blog
22nd of April 2021 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Hire Writers for Your Blog

This blog is based on episode 169 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most blogs start out as a solo effort, with one person doing all the writing, marketing and social media updates. That’s certainly how I started all my blogs. But while I still produce most of the content on ProBlogger, it’s ...more
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Why you should look after your archives
18th of March 2021 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Why You Should Look after Your Archives

Every post you publish is another potential source of traffic. And so obviously the more posts you write, the more traffic you’ll get. But while creating new content is always a good thing, there’s another way to bring extra traffic to your site that will take far less effort. Updating ...more
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8 effective ways to wrap up your blog posts
19th of November 2020 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

8 Effective Ways to Wrap up Your Blog Posts

This post is based on episode 56 of the ProBlogger podcast. You’ve said everything you wanted to say in your post, and now it’s time to quickly wrap things up so you can hit ‘Publish’. Sound familiar? If it does, then you’re missing out on an opportunity to do even more ...more
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